LAS CRUCES - Legislation requiring paid sick leave to be offered to all workers in New Mexico cleared its first committee Thursday, Feb. 4, after the sponsors of two different bills on the subject agreed to combine their efforts.
House Bill 37, sponsored primarily by Angelica Rubio, D-Las Cruces, and House Bill 20, sponsored primarily by Christine Chandler, D-Rio Rancho, were combined into a committee substitute for HB 20. That bill passed the House Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on a 5-3 vote.
The bill would require employers to offer paid sick-leave benefits to all employees, both full-time and part-time. Workers would earn one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
DEMING The healing process has begun.
Family members and New Mexico State Police held a press conference on Saturday in honor of fallen NMSP officer Darian Jarrott, 28, who was shot and killed on Thursday during a traffic stop on Interstate 10 near Akela Flats, east of Deming. The suspect in the shooting, Omar Felix Cueva, 39, of Deming, was later shot and killed by law enforcement in Las Cruces following a pursuit by multiple law enforcement agencies.
The press conference was held to offer condolences and support for the family of Darian Jarrott at the NMSP District 12 Headquarters at 3000 E. Pine St. in Deming.
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University Heights police Officer Darryl Tucker on Jan. 20 demonstrates the department s Panasonic body camera clipped to his uniform. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
This still photo from the Jan. 6, 2015, body camera video of Burlington police Officer Jesse Hill shows Autumn Steele, 34, seconds before Hill accidentally shot and killed her during a domestic incident in her yard.
This body camera video from the Maquoketa Police Department shows Drew Edwards, in the white shirt, being held on the ground by police after being Tasered. Edwards later died.
In-car dashboard camera video shows the seconds before Polk County Lt. Brandon Bracelin fatally shot Isaiah Hayes, who was running from officers with a realistic-looking BB gun in his hand, in 2018.
BOSTON â The Massachusetts House has approved a revised version of a police accountability bill and sent it back to the desk of Gov. Charlie Baker who has indicated he would sign it.
The Republican governor sent the original bill approved this month back to lawmakers for revisions, included loosening proposed limits on the use of facial recognition technology. The governor said he opposed the bill s moratorium on facial recognition technology, pointing out that it helped convict a child rapist and an accomplice to a double murder in recent years.
The bill would also create a civilian-led commission to standardize the certification, training and decertification of police officers in the state.